Merriest Christmas- TTCRD

Hello lovelies, hope you are well! Today I am sharing my DT creation for TTCRD. There's a brand new challenge and our fab sponsors are The project bin. The winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to spend in store. 

Here is a little info about them:

The Project Bin was started because its founder, Denise Storck (a long-time stamper and paper-crafter), couldn't find a stamp that said "You are awesome sauce", so she decided to make her own! One thing led to another, and now her small business fills a niche in the card making industry for unique word art sentiments in the highest quality photopolymer clear stamps, made in the U.S.A.

To create my tag I have used the Merriest Christmas stamp set from The project bin. 

Thanks so much for stopping by, see you on the next post! Hugs, Zowie xx 

Sweet as candy!

Hello lovelies, hope you are well! There's a new craft challenge over at TTCRD today. Our sponsor is The Paper Shelter  and there is a wonderful prize of three images from their online shop.

For my DT creation I have created a retro ATC using this fabulous Yummy image from The Paper Shelter. 

To make my ATC I chose some collage paper from my own stash and a piece from the Rusty Bucket collection. I have also used this fabulous Retro Yum image from Gecko Galz.

To complete my design, I adhered a pink butterfly and a small quote. Thanks so much for stopping by, I really do appreciate it! 

Hugs, Zowie xx 

Day at the beach

Hello lovelies, hope you are well! There is a brand new challenge over at TTCRD  our sponsor this week is also TTCRD  The winner will receive a $5 Amazon gift card. 

For my DT creation I have made a vintage beach theme ATC using this wonderful image from Gecko Galz

I have also used a mixture of digital papers which I adhered onto Kraft card stock, measured at 3.5 inches x 2.5 inches. I distressed the edges using a Tim Holtz paper distressing tool and Ground espresso distress oxide. Finally, I added some cheese cloth and a black and white clipart Starfish. 

Thanks so much for stopping by, see you on the next post. Hugs Zowie xx 

So beautiful

Hello lovelies, hope you are well! today there is a brand new challenge over at TTCRD. This week our fab sponsor is We are 3 and the winner will receive a great prize! 

For my DT creation I have made an ATC using these beautiful papers and pre-coloured digital Bee stamp  

Thanks so much for stopping by, see you on the next post! Hugs Zowie xx 

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A thank you tag!

Hello lovelies, hope you are well! there's a new craft challenge over at TTCRD

Our fabulous sponsors are Newton's Nook Designs. Here is some more info on them:

Newton's Nook designs is made up of a husband and wife team located in Southern Winconsin. Their goal is to provide you with unique and whimsical stamp designs and products that are fun to use and make you smile! Jen illustrates and designs all of the products and Jeff does the behind the scenes essentials! Their company is named after their sweet orange tabby cat, who is also the inspiration for their adorable cat themed designs! 

There is a fabulous prize to be won! 

For my DT creation I have used this wonderful 'thank you' stamp from their freebie digital stamp collection

Thank you for stopping by, see you on the next post! hugs, Zowie xx 

Those who fly solo, have the strongest wings

Hello lovelies, hope you are well! There's a brand new challenge over at TTCRD. Our wonderful sponsor is Morgan's Artworld and there is a fabulous prize of 3 digi images to be won! Here is some more info on them:

For my DT creation I have used this beautiful digital Owl stamp from Morgan's artworld, which I coloured with Faber Castel colouring pencils. 

I have used these beautiful papers from my own stash and adhered them on to Kraft card stock measured at 5.5 inches x 3 inches. I have distressed all layers with a distressing tool and Ground Espresso distress oxide. Next, I adhered the Owl image. 

Here I have used a pine cone die and the Tim Holtz Holiday greens mini thinlits cut from Kraft card stock. 

Finally, I printed out this sentiment 'Those who fly solo, have the strongest wings' and adhered them to my tag. Thanks so much for stopping by. 

Hugs, Zowie xx 

Links:

TTCRD Blog
TTCRD Facebook group
Morgan's Artworld

What a day!

Hello lovelies, hope you are well! There's a new challenge over at TTCRD and our lovely sponsors are Stix2 Anything. There's also a fab prize to be won too! Here is a little more info about them:

Stix2 is based in the UK and supply amazing products to the craft, hobby, scrapbooking and stationary market. We have hundreds of different types of adhesives, tapes, glues, PVA's, hot glue, foam pads... to suit everyone's preference. And then we have a whole host of ancilliary products to go with them, you can see the full range HERE. 

Based in the North East of England we supply to craft shops around the world, making many of our products on our premises. 

Here is my DT creation; please carry on reading to see how I made my vintage art tag...

To create my vintage tag, I first chose this lovely pink crackled paint texture paper that I purchased from Etsy a while back. (I have tried to add the link to the shop, but unfortunately it no longer exists.) I also chose this delightful vintage image to use as a focal point on my tag. 

I have used a sheet of paper from the shades of September pack from Raspberry road designs; a fishing net kraft card die cut and a small vintage clipart Crab. 

I tore a piece of corrugated card and inked the edges with Ground Espresso distress oxide. 

I adhered all layers of paper onto a piece of kraft card stock measured at 5.5 inches x 3.5 inches. I distressed all edges with a Tim Holtz distressing tool and Ground Espresso distress oxide. I then adhered the piece of corrugated card using double sided tape. Next, I adhered the vintage image to the centre of the tag also, using double sided tape along with some sticky foam squares to give some height, so that it stands up, off the layers of paper and corrugated card. 

Next, I adhered cheesecloth using wet glue to the bottom left corner of the tag. Over that, I adhered the fish net die cut and clipart Crab. 

Finally, I printed out the words 'what a day' and adhered them to the tag. I have loved making this! Thanks so much for stopping by, I really do appreciate it. Hugs Zowie xx 

Links:

TTCRD challenge blog

TTCRD Facebook group

Stix2 Facebook

Thank you for reminding me what butterflies feel like!

Hello lovelies, hope you are well! There's a new craft challenge over at TTCRD so today I am sharing my DT creation! Our sponsor is The Project Bin; here is a little more information about them:

The Project Bin was started because it's founder, Denise Storck (a long-time stamper and paper-crafter) couldn't find a stamp that said 'you are awesome sauce' so she decided to make her own! One thing led to another and now her small business fills a niche in the card making industry for unique word art sentiments in the highest quality photopolymer clear stamps, made in the U.S.A

To make my card, I started with this fabulous Kinda- sorta clear stamp and using a clear block and Black soot distress ink, stamped the image onto a piece of kraft card stock. Next, I lightly distressed the edges using a distressing tool and Ground espresso distress oxide. I have also used these gorgeous papers from my stash,which I distressed using the same technique to achieve an old distressed vintage look.

Once all layers of paper had been adhered to my card base, I then lightly spread some white gesso in random places over the main stamped image. I let this dry naturally, then adhered that on to the centre of the card. I have also used a Tim Holtz stitch stamp to create a sewed look on the paper. 

Finally, I fussy cut a vintage clipart flower, distressed the edges using Ground espresso distress ink and adhered that also to the bottom corner of my card. Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs, Zowie xx 


I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Hand stamped sentiments challenge #312

Pearly sparkles challenge #39 flowers and showers

Use your stuff challenge #354

A Vintage Journey - Neutral zone

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge

Hello lovely friends, hope you are well! Today there is a new challenge over at 'Through the craft room door'. The sponsors this week are Createful Heart Design and here is a little bio about them:

Hello and welcome to our store, Createful Heart Design! My husband and I create cute and wonderful digital images - for all of your card making, scrapbooking etc.. Just print and color in by hand or we have a few pre-colored images available, soon to offer more! 

The prize of this challenge is four beautiful digital stamps from their Zibbet store. 

Here is an art journal page that I have made for this challenge using the wonderful Vintage butterfly air mail digital stamp. When I saw this, I knew that I wanted to make something vintage and grungy!

To colour the Butterfly, I have used a selection of brown tone Faber Castel pencils. 

I have used a selection of Royal Langnickel Crafters choice acrylic paint in almond, raw umber and burnt umber to create the background of my art journal page. I also used a variety of mixed media stamps along with Archival jet black ink.

Finally, I printed out the quote 'blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures' and added it to the page. 

Thanks so much for stopping by, see you on the next post, hugs Zowie xx


Links:

Vintage butterfly air mail stamp

TTCRD blog

TTCRD on the net   here you will find more info on the magazine and much more! 

TTCRD on Facebook